HTTP Protocols
Explore the fundamentals of HTTP protocols within distributed systems and identify common stability antipatterns that affect communication reliability. Understand vulnerabilities related to client libraries and connection handling. Learn strategies to mitigate issues such as unresponsive providers, unexpected responses, and improper content types. This lesson helps you safely manage HTTP requests and responses to improve system stability.
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What is HTTP?
REST with JSON over HTTP is the standard for services today. No matter what language or framework we use, it boils down to shipping some chunk of formatted, semantically meaningful text as an HTTP request and waiting for an HTTP response.
HTTP protocols vulnerability
Of course, all HTTP-based protocols use sockets, so they are vulnerable to all of the problems described previously. HTTP adds its own ...